THE VERY FIRST APPEARANCES

>>3927116
He was right handed?

Resident Evil 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1CVafGGExU

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>>3927116
Nah, the stuff they outsorced to animation studios in the first 4 games was mostly promotional/packaging artwork and illustrations, created *after* the in-game visual style was already in place, not first stages concept art or anything (though they did ask for test pieces when they were beginning work on OoT before they decided to keep everything in-house)

I assume Link looked like earlier Links in those demos because... that's how Link used to look? It was not like today; a striking new visual look to get people's attention was not a priority, as the exhausting pre-release hype information drip was still not an industry standard practice. Radically changing link into a bishonen was a pretty big leap, and it took a person who knew he wouldn't lose his job to take it.

https://youtu.be/ys723F9wiwU

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>>3927238
"Homever, when we started work on Ocarina of Time, the workflow we'd been using prior to this was also still in place, so we outsourced the art to the usual animation studio"

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Pokémon Gold & Silver, then Pocket Monsters 2: Gold & Silver.

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>>3927585

>>3927586
neat, looks like that's before it was colorized

>>3927662
Yeah, the game was almost completly remade after the Game Boy Color announcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4de7uwhoOyY
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver_beta

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The earliest known sketches for Pokemon, back when Sajiri was still calling it Capsule Monsters.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Capsule_Monsters#Artwork

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>>3928143
The iconic layout for Kanto, plotted years before the games were programmed.

>>3928146
>The iconic layout for Kanto
Ah yes, the iconic cycling bridge known for going straight through the safari zone.

>>3928146
Similar layout, not iconic layout

>>3928143
But this was revealed many years after Pokemon first appearance. Actually, does anyone know when and were Pokemon was first announced?

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The very first images of MGS from an early 1997 issue of Famitsu.

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>>3928237
And here's an interview Kojima-kantoku himself.

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>>3928239
This seems to be Part 1 of a two-part interview, but the uploader only had this issue.

>>3928143
>1990
I always thought this game drew inspiration from DQV.

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Not so much a first appearance but the roots of Final Fantasy 7 began as a SGI tech demo with FF6 characters